Ongoing projects

  • 2011-2014 - "Structural determinants of superoxide reduction - A detoxification system essential for life" (PTDC/BIA-PRO/111940/2009)

ITQB projects

  • 2010-2013 - "Mind the gap: How extracellular respiration is linked across the periplasmic space to the cytoplasmic oxidation of substrates. A key step in bioenergy harvesting" (PTDC/BIA-PRO/098158/2008)
  • 2010-2013 - "Engineering mini Superoxide Dismutases with tunable redox properties" (PTDC/QUI-BIQ/098406/2008)
  • 2008-2011 - "Towards biohydrogen production - study of a high-activity, oxygen-resistant bacterial hydrogenase" (PTDC/BIA-PRO/70429/2006)
  • 2008-2011 - " Molecular Adaptation to Extreme Environments: Structural Studies of Proteins Involved in the Synthesis of Osmolytes in (hyper)thermophylic micro-organisms" (PTDC/QUI/71142/2006)
  • 2008-2011 - " Iron metabolism in sulphate reducing bacteria" (PTDC/BIA-PRO/67107/2006)
  • 2008-2011 - " Iron Metabolism Study in Deinococcus radiodurans- Novel strategies" (PTDC/BIA-PRO/67240/2006)